Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Chris Visser wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card. The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this for a while, but the it starts again. I've tried replacing the card, but that didn't seem to solve the problem. rtl8139 on my machine, running FreeBSD 5.1, there's no trouble, everything works fine. maybe you can check the pci controller, is FreeBSD support that device? CMIIW, must appriciated ... --- Dwi Suharto System Engineer and Computer Network Technical Support STMIK AKAKOM Yogyakarta Phone: +62-274-486664 ext. 192 Mobile: +62-8562836982 http://get.bounceme.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd
Good morning! I have 4.9-release. I'm having little problem with time. I live in Russia on Moscow-west+00 time. My clock is local. My timezome is /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow. To resolve this trouble I see following: 1. Say FreeBSD that my clock is local. 2. Set timezone. I used for it /stand/sysinstall. But FreeBSD think that clock is GMT, not local. Let's now 9:46:03 in Moscow #date 12:46:03 (MSK) #zdump /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow Fri Dec 5 12:46:07 2003 MSK #diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow Why my FreeDSD work on GMT and not on localtime? Thank you. -- Lev Klimin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (8362) 42-15-49 19:37:26 2 2003 . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What exactly is ipfilter?
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: I'm looking through rc.conf and the kernel config file for FreeBSD 4.9 (recently downloaded it, my last upgrade was 4.5 so I was way behind, and this is a new install because my old firewall died). I'm used to using ipfw and natd for my firewall, but now I'm seeing ipfilter, ipnat and ipmon. I've done a google search on all of www.freebsd.org for ipfilter, but it only seems to show up in release notes, and the online handbook doesn't really talk about it. Since I haven't recompiled my new kernel, should I consider this instead of ipfw and natd? What's the difference, exactly? On a related note, I'm not sure what the usefulness of IPDIVERT is either, so I don't know if I should compile it in the kernel or not. i'm currently using ipf and ipnat for firewall. you can check this URL for ipf: http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html#TOC_5 --- Dwi Suharto System Engineer and Computer Network Technical Support STMIK AKAKOM Yogyakarta Phone: +62-274-486664 ext. 192 Mobile: +62-8562836982 http://get.bounceme.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quota
hi all! root#haron[p0]/etc/rc.duname -a FreeBSD [skip] 5.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Fri Nov 21 15:10:56 EET 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/kernel i386 root#haron[p0]/etc/rc.d root#haron[p0]/etc/rc.dedquota alex Quotas for user alex: /home/users: kbytes in use: 0, limits (soft = 18000, hard = 2) inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0) root#haron[p0]/etc/rc.d then: root#haron[p0]/etc/rc.dquota alex Disk quotas for user alex (uid 1006): none root#haron[p0]/etc/rc.d --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/users/local/alexquota -u Disk quotas for user alex (uid 1006): none [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/users/local/alexquota why don`t work? - fstab: root#haron[p0]/home/users/local/nemoless /etc/fstab [skip] /dev/ad0s1f /home/users ufs rw,userquota,noexec 2 2 [skip] root#haron[p0]/home/users/local/nemo kernel config : options QUOTA P.S. how I can solve my problem? -- wbr, Alex aka Nemo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card. The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this for a while, but the it starts again. There have been reports of instabilities with the 8139. I don't know if it's really the hardware to blame or the driver, but the documentation for the hardware is apparently so terrible that it's difficult to say. I'm using an 8139 in a number of places, including (currently) my main server machine. The switch notes a large number of errors under load, and I'm thinking of changing to a different card the next time I have to reboot. Rather than reboot your machine, you'll probably find that the following sequence unwedges the card: ifconfig rl0 down ifconfig rl0 up I had this in a cron job at one point. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: growfs says 'we are not growing' ?!?!
Problems have been resolved, thanks again for the help =) -Rishi Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:23:13 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I get: growfs: we are not growing (1048576 - 0) So I took a look at your email, and you said: You've grown the slice, but you need to also expand the partition before growfs can resize the filesystem. It wasn't my email. This is what confuses me. The slice (da0s1, called partition in your quote?) is taking up the whole disk. It is the only slice on the disk, No, you will need to grow the *partition* using disklabel. What does `disklabel -r da0s1' say? and spans the entire disk. Any idea why I'm getting the error? -Rishi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPSEC Tunnel Routing question
Hello Tom, So I assume by working you mean that the two computers can ping one another? If so, simply set the computer in Builing B to have a default route to the IP of the computer in Building A: [Building B]# route add default 10.0.0.1 Where 10.0.0.1 is the IP of the computer in Building A. Also, ensure that any firewall in A allows traffic from Building B to flow in and out router etc. HTH. Matthew Faircliff On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:50:08PM -0500, Tom Thompson wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:50:08 -0500 From: Tom Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: IMail v8.04 Subject: IPSEC Tunnel Routing question I would like to route all traffic over a gif/ipsec tunnel I have the following situation Existing internet connection in building A Building to building wireless(between building A and Building B) To secure the traffic going across the wireless I would like to run an ipsec tunnel between freebsd 5.1 based machines sitting at Building A and Building B. I have the tunnels up and running but I am experiencing a problem with routing. Building B does not have an internet connection so it needs to use the internet connection at Building A. To lay it out in more details Router at building A connections to the internet FreeBSD 5.1 machine at Building A connects to router and to wireless bridges FreeBSD 5.1 machine at Building B connects to Wireless bridges and internal network What do I need to do you get traffic to flow from Building B to Building A and out A's internet connection? I have tried setting building B defaultrouter to building A internal address(other side of GIF tunnel) Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Artsd process running // What is It ??
On Friday 05 December 2003 10:11, Greg Bernard wrote: Hello, I have a process called artsd running on my server and I was wondering what this process could be ?? Seems to be related to some kind of audio device... As I am not the one that has started this process, I would be interested in knowing where It has been started from and It is supposed to do ?? Artsd gets started by KDE by default. It's a sound-daemon just like ESD. It allows multiple programs to play sound at the same time. If you don't need/want the artsd running you can disable it in the KDE control pannel. No man pages could be found... But a quick google search for artsd gives : http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdemultimedia/artsbuilder/artsd.html grtz, Daan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card. The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this for a while, but the it starts again. There have been reports of instabilities with the 8139. I don't know if it's really the hardware to blame or the driver, but the documentation for the hardware is apparently so terrible that it's difficult to say. I'm using an 8139 in a number of places, including (currently) my main server machine. The switch notes a large number of errors under load, and I'm thinking of changing to a different card the next time I have to reboot. Rather than reboot your machine, you'll probably find that the following sequence unwedges the card: ifconfig rl0 down ifconfig rl0 up I had this in a cron job at one point. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. I have had the problem with this card on FreeBSD 5.0. Problem was resolved by recompiling of kernel with new drivers from Realtec. It seems there is many modification of 8139 chipset that have a postfix ( D, C,...). When I choose driver that match my chipset all become ok. I don't know whether this driver was included in 5.1, so this is only assumption, and it doesn't help to you. -- Denis. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:02:19AM +0300, Lev Klimin wrote: Good morning! I have 4.9-release. I'm having little problem with time. I live in Russia on Moscow-west+00 time. My clock is local. My timezome is /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow. To resolve this trouble I see following: 1. Say FreeBSD that my clock is local. 2. Set timezone. You mean that the CMOS clock is set to local time? That is only necessary when you have non-Unix OSes installed on the machine. The CMOS clock is also known as the BIOS clock -- it operates on battery independently of the system being up or down, and independent of whatever OS you're using. The default setting of the CMOS clock to UTC gives best results -- you should use that setting unless you have good reason not to. If your CMOS clock isn't set to UTC, you should have an empty file called /etc/wall_cmos_clock, and you need to run adjkerntz(8) occasionally to update the CMOS clock from the kernel clock (which always runs UTC) -- amongst other things this will deal with changing the clock at the beginning/end of daylight savings time. This should be handled automatically via /etc/crontab. I used for it /stand/sysinstall. But FreeBSD think that clock is GMT, not local. Let's now 9:46:03 in Moscow #date 12:46:03 (MSK) Try using /usr/sbin/tzsetup to set the timezone -- it will be quite familiar to you from sysinstall(8). #zdump /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow Fri Dec 5 12:46:07 2003 MSK #diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Moscow Why my FreeDSD work on GMT and not on localtime? Sounds like CMOS clock is actually running UTC. If you really have to set it to wall-clcock time, try setting the kernel clcock date/time correctly using date(1), and then run 'adjkerntz -a' to set the CMOS clock from the kernel clock. Or you can set the CMOS clock from the BIOS setup screens. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:24:12 + Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've blocked a dozen or so addresses using ipfilter: block in quick on fxp0 from 208.186.60.116 to any block in quick on fxp0 from 216.230.149.11 to any etc but I still see a lot of traffic those hosts in trafshow, snort and other packet capturing utils. Why is this? Is there any alternative method of blocking access from certain hosts so that this traffic is not 'seen' by higher level /userland apps? As background, the blocked hosts were part of a denial of service attack which has been going on for a few hours now. The attack was aimed at port 80, although an odd artifact is that no httpd log entries were made for any of the hosts attempting to connect on port 80. A cursory nmap scan of a few of the hosts shows that all hosts had both port 25 and 80 open, but none of the hosts accepted connections on either of those ports. Any idea what kind of attack this could be? -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are probably seeing the supposedly blocked packets on the outside of network. Observe them on inside, i.e., on the interface not fxp0. What you are seeing are packets ipfilter is just about to handle. I don't understand your second question. Are you thinking about tcp wrapper, reset feature of snort, etc ? horio shoichi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rio file system
hello. is the rio file system supported in freebsd? will i be able to use it? //metalworker _ Hitta rätt på nätet med MSN Sök http://search.msn.se/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:07:20 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a (probably bad) idea. If you say that the partition was mounted as /data, then you could do a # hd /dev/ad6s1 |grep /data It should come up soon (the superblock should be close to the beginning of the drive, right?). This way you can at least figure out where your superblock lies (rounding the address of `/data' to 8K). Considering the above discussion, you can calculate the *correct* address of the `e' partition by subtracting 8K or 64K or 256K. See if it matches the one in the disklabel. Of course, this is all possible only if your superblock isn't screwed enough to NOT contain `/data'. Been running about a minute so far... nada. So I guess your assumption is correct: the 1st superblock is destroyed (as fsck suggested when it barfed). I wonder what did destroy it. Of course, system crashes can do wonders, but... Just a minute. Are you sure that the filesystem was newfs'd with the default parameters? If it were for me to newfs it, I would probably choose larger blockfragment sizes, as I would probably be storing large files. The superblock copy positions depend on the block/frag size. If you specify parameters different from those used for actually newfs'ing it the very first time, newfs -N will give you *incorrect* copy addresses! Well, specifying custom block/frag sizes is a bit out of my customization forte at the moment, and certainly at the time this drive went in. I'm 99% positive I used sysinstall to set it up. I remember some quirks about the sysinstall method, and also deciding that the by-hand method was unnecessarily complicated for my needs. This has taught me that, should I ever choose to do that, that writing down these custom values is CRITICAL. Is there any way to positively identify a superblock location (say, using hd | grep ) using known information? Just a random thought. In fact, there should be a way, because a valid superblock copy has a correct checksum. Perhaps I'll hack up a program to do that taking information from the /usr/src/sys/ufs/... There's also a magic number for a superblock, mentioned in fs.h (in 4.8 it's 0x011954). So, for me, grepping gives $ hd /dev/ad2s2 | grep 54 19 01 00 2550 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 54 19 01 00 |T...| 4550 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 54 19 01 00 |T...| 001e9150 11 00 07 00 54 19 01 00 a4 b2 3a c0 00 00 00 00 |T...:| 00a97570 8b 48 60 81 b9 5c 05 00 00 54 19 01 00 75 13 8b |H`\...T...u.| 00a98900 05 00 00 54 19 01 00 74 0b 68 54 5f 2d c0 e8 91 |...T...t.hT_-| 00efb150 11 00 07 00 54 19 01 00 a4 b2 3a c0 00 00 00 00 |T...:| 013b3f50 00 54 19 01 00 75 13 8b 51 30 81 fa 00 00 01 00 |.T...u.Q0| 013b52d0 00 00 8b 70 0c 81 be 5c 05 00 00 54 19 01 00 74 |..p.\...T...t| 01705760 8b 48 60 81 b9 5c 05 00 00 54 19 01 00 75 13 8b |H`\...T...u.| 01706af0 05 00 00 54 19 01 00 74 0b 68 34 89 2a c0 e8 91 |...T...t.h4*| 01831f50 00 54 19 01 00 75 13 8b 51 30 81 fa 00 00 01 00 |.T...u.Q0| 018332d0 00 00 8b 70 0c 81 be 5c 05 00 00 54 19 01 00 74 |..p.\...T...t| . . . Only the first two are real --- the superblock and the first copy (I'm on UFS1). The rest are false positives. You might want to try using $ hd /dev/ad2s2 | grep 54 19 01 00 | to filter out most of them. Have fun. If the disk is that screwed, you might also want to try out tct (/usr/ports/sysutils/tct). I'm not sure, but it might be helpful later(?) Although I'm treating this as a learning experience, I also REALLY REALLY don't want to loose all that data. I do appreciate the help you've been giving me. Thanks again. I'm choosing to remain optimistic. I used to salvage lots of data from DOS/Windows partitions (still do) so learning the tricks of the trade in my new OS of choice is important to me. (PS: already pricing out external USB hard drive enclosures for making backups of this drive in the future) A good idea would also be to print out the hd of the superblock contents on a sheet of paper when you find it and put it in a cool dry place:) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- DoubleF New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and his wife most often reminds him to act it. -- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc
Hi Horio, Cheers for reply. On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:33:49PM +0900, horio shoichi wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:24:12 + Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've blocked a dozen or so addresses using ipfilter: block in quick on fxp0 from 208.186.60.116 to any block in quick on fxp0 from 216.230.149.11 to any etc but I still see a lot of traffic those hosts in trafshow, snort and other packet capturing utils. Why is this? You are probably seeing the supposedly blocked packets on the outside of network. Observe them on inside, i.e., on the interface not fxp0. Not sure what you mean here, what command would you issue via tcpdump or snort to do what you suggest? What you are seeing are packets ipfilter is just about to handle. Right - it's just I would have thought that ipfilter handled packets before they reached any traffic dumping utils. I see what you're getting at. Presumably snort for example uses the bpf driver via pcap(?) to capture network traffic... actually reading bpf(4) clears things up a little: Associated with each open instance of a bpf file is a user-settable packet filter. Whenever a packet is received by an interface, all file descriptors listening on that interface apply their filter. Each descriptor that accepts the packet receives its own copy. Is there any alternative method of blocking access from certain hosts so that this traffic is not 'seen' by higher level /userland apps? I don't understand your second question. Are you thinking about tcp wrapper, reset feature of snort, etc ? Let me rephrase that one :P I meant is there a method - for example such as adding some kind of routing via arp - so that packets are dropped on the floor even quicker than they would be via the firewall method? -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:58, Jez Hancock wrote: Let me rephrase that one :P I meant is there a method - for example such as adding some kind of routing via arp - so that packets are dropped on the floor even quicker than they would be via the firewall method? You could bind the ip's to the loopback interface, but I think the firewall setup is quicker. -- Melvyn === FreeBSD sarevok.idg.nl 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #1: Thu Dec 4 12:47:31 CET 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 === pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Spamassassin - uninitialized value in Bayes.pm
Recently I have been seeing the following in my maillog as it relates to spamassassin running. It appears the filter is running, but would like to know what these errors mean. Any ideas? -Troy Dec 5 06:11:07 localhost spamd[18901]: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 515. Dec 5 06:11:07 localhost spamd[18901]: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 515. Dec 5 06:11:07 localhost spamd[18901]: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 517. Dec 5 06:11:07 localhost spamd[18901]: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 517. Dec 5 06:11:07 localhost spamd[18901]: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 518. Dec 5 06:11:07 localhost spamd[18901]: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 518. The lines in bayes.pm appear to be: $boundary =~ s/[a-fA-F0-9]/H/gs; # break up blocks of separator chars so they become their own tokens $boundary =~ s/([-_\.=]+)/ $1 /gs; $val .= $boundary; ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Friday 05 December 2003 06:51, Chris Visser wrote: The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this for a while, but the it starts again. What is the card plugged into at the other end? I had the same problem on a friends machine, the network card just seemed to stop passing any data after some period of time between a few minutes and 24 hours or so. After much much much wasting of time and money, it turned out to not actually be a problem with the network card, but the Netgear hub that it was plugged into crashing on that port and refusing to pass any more data. I still have to try and take that damn hub back and get a refund since it's about as useful as a chocolate teapot. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/0HdsF8Iu1zN5WiwRAjgmAKCRg6CZKZqGnk7/9Q10xMRtAr8x6gCfZ7NO iFMiAOvrpOIOUaMea6ailTU= =IGmz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:10:16PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 11:58, Jez Hancock wrote: Let me rephrase that one :P I meant is there a method - for example such as adding some kind of routing via arp - so that packets are dropped on the floor even quicker than they would be via the firewall method? You could bind the ip's to the loopback interface, but I think the firewall setup is quicker. Interesting(!) idea but kind of does the DOS'ers job for 'em! I'm really curious as to what type of attack it actually was. Right now I know: - it was aimed at a single address on port 80 - global apache errorlog was relatively quiet in the run up to the exhaustion of apache with only a small hint that a larger number of requests were being made: [Thu Dec 4 18:47:46 2003] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 0 idle, and 146 total children [Thu Dec 4 18:47:47 2003] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting [Thu Dec 4 18:52:34 2003] [notice] child pid 91863 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) snip same error log line repeated around 4,500 times! [Fri Dec 5 00:13:04 2003] [notice] child pid 38280 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Fri Dec 5 01:35:52 2003] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 0 idle, and 17 total children note the 5min gap between the server reaching the MaxClients setting and the server collapsing with no err log entries in between - no HTTP requests were logged by apache from any of the dozen or so attacking hosts - snort captured only SYN packets from the attacking hosts (I suppose this explains why no requests were logged by apache) - all the attacking hosts had both port 25 and 80 open, although none of those hosts accepted inbound connections to those ports Would appear someone had control over a few zombie hosts and was able to coordinate a distributed attack - thankfully it was only a dozen or so hosts :P -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
Hi, Kurt Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can you tell me the difference between www.freesco.org and www.freesdb.org I hope, I can. www.freesco.org is an existing website. www.freesdb.org is a nonexisting website. Best regards Kurt Schneider HTH Sven -- 2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through. --Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord ---[rand. sig. #3] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc
Maybee an upgrade of apache would be a good start?. and have a look at mod_bandwidth http://www.cohprog.com/mod_bandwidth.html and mod_dosevasive http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dosevasive/ . -david -Original Message- From: Jez Hancock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 23:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:10:16PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 11:58, Jez Hancock wrote: Let me rephrase that one :P I meant is there a method - for example such as adding some kind of routing via arp - so that packets are dropped on the floor even quicker than they would be via the firewall method? You could bind the ip's to the loopback interface, but I think the firewall setup is quicker. Interesting(!) idea but kind of does the DOS'ers job for 'em! I'm really curious as to what type of attack it actually was. Right now I know: - it was aimed at a single address on port 80 - global apache errorlog was relatively quiet in the run up to the exhaustion of apache with only a small hint that a larger number of requests were being made: [Thu Dec 4 18:47:46 2003] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 0 idle, and 146 total children [Thu Dec 4 18:47:47 2003] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting [Thu Dec 4 18:52:34 2003] [notice] child pid 91863 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) snip same error log line repeated around 4,500 times! [Fri Dec 5 00:13:04 2003] [notice] child pid 38280 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Fri Dec 5 01:35:52 2003] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 0 idle, and 17 total children note the 5min gap between the server reaching the MaxClients setting and the server collapsing with no err log entries in between - no HTTP requests were logged by apache from any of the dozen or so attacking hosts - snort captured only SYN packets from the attacking hosts (I suppose this explains why no requests were logged by apache) - all the attacking hosts had both port 25 and 80 open, although none of those hosts accepted inbound connections to those ports Would appear someone had control over a few zombie hosts and was able to coordinate a distributed attack - thankfully it was only a dozen or so hosts :P -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
live cd login
did i miss something or what ? i never saw anything about a password till boot was done (well almost done ) then i'm stopped cold ' not knowing the login name or password. what gives? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
liste en français
bonjour, je constate que ce mailing liste est en anglais. Je suis allé sur freebsd-fr.org mais la serverlist ne fonctionne pas. Pouvez-vous me donner l'adresse et un lien pour m'inscrire sur une mailing liste en français et ne plus vous embêter avec mes questions en français ? merci encore. nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding a new network card to FreeBSD 5.1
Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the last e-mail. I am hoping this one makes more sense. I had to replace my old network card, with a new one. The one was Netgear F311, the new one is Intel Pro 10/100, but I can't find how to make FreeBSD to see it. I have played around with sysinstall, is there a easy way to add to my FreeBSD. I am using 5.1 It should just show up on its own, (as fxp0, I think). Is it detected at boot? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfilter traffic blocking and tcpdump snort etc
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:01:09AM +1100, David wrote: Maybee an upgrade of apache would be a good start?. and have a look at mod_bandwidth http://www.cohprog.com/mod_bandwidth.html and mod_dosevasive http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dosevasive/ I upgrade manually using portupgrade where necessary every weekend after the weekly periodic run. Without doubt apache is up to date - unless any changes to the ports in the last few days :P Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_accounting/0.5 PHP/4.3.4 mod_perl/1.28 mod_throttle/3.1.2 Gets me that something as simple as a flood of packets can just cripple a service so easily given enough bandwidth (although adding ipf rules helped a lot). I've not actually checked out mod_bandwidth, I use mod_throttle - fwiw, it's not great for multiple vhosts :( - should check that out, thanks. mod_dosevasive sounds even more interesting. Heading toward that link now... Very interesting, particularly this feature: The blacklist can/should be configured to talk to your network's firewalls and/or routers to push the attack out to the front lines, but this is not required. This is something I could do with for Exim as well :P Not sure that it would have helped last night actually - no hits were actually registered by apache during the attack from any of the attacking hosts. As I said in another post, all the packets I captured from the attacking hosts with snort during the packet attack only had the SYN flag set - it appeared to be the sheer volume of these packets to port 80 that was causing apache child procs to die rapidly in succession. The hardest part over the few hours the attack lasted was working out from the snort logs which _bad_ hosts I'd already blocked with ipf, which hosts were legit and which hosts I still had to block - over time more hosts joined in the attack. The last 20mins or so consisted of a flood from a single host I'd missed in my blocking spree! Fun and games :=P -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome2 Portinstall Error
I am trying to do a portinstall of Gnome2 on a 5.1-RELEASE-p11 machine and receive the following error a while after the Ghostscript Driver selection screen: Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall1120200.0 make reinstall Fix the installation problem and try again. I looked in /tmp and the portinstall1120200.0 file does not seem to exist. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks, Barry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: protecting loader
Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to prevent a user from bypassing loader and loading/unloading stuff at the OK prompt? (other than physical security measures) I don't know, but I don't think it will help much. It would still be possible to come up in singler-user mode, which let the user bypass anything you set up anyway. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localhost pingable, inaccessible on browser
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:58:26AM -0500, Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 20 lines which said: Like the subject says, I can ping localhost and 127.0.0.1 but can't get to them via lynx. Error message from lynx? Or a broken proxy setup: echo $http_proxy /etc/hosts says ::1 localhost localhost.face2interface.domain 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.face2interface.domain Do you try http://127.0.0.1/ or http://localhost/ ? In the second case, you may have an IPv6 problem. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snmpd problems
net-snmp: 1 error(s) in config file(s) Error opening specified endpoint 161 Server Exiting with code 1 or Error opening specified endpoint udp:161 Server Exiting with code 1 I don't know were to look for or how to fix. any help appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localhost pingable, inaccessible on browser
On Friday 05 December 2003 15:21, Marty Landman wrote: At 09:02 AM 12/5/2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Sounds like you don't have an http server running on the machine. Sorry I wasn't more clear. Apache2's running and afaik working well excepting this issue. If you do, then maybe a local firewall is getting in the way. ipfw isn't running. What are the other possibilities? Sounds like you have configured apache to listen only on 192.168.0.x . Do you have something like this in your httpd.conf ? : Listen 192.168.0.x:80 If so, try adding Listen 127.0.0.1:80 or change it into Listen 80 grtz, Daan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ymessenger
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:44:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i get yahoo y messenger cd /usr/ports/net/ymessenger make install -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localhost pingable, inaccessible on browser
At 09:33 AM 12/5/2003, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: Sounds like you have configured apache to listen only on 192.168.0.x . [snip] change it into Listen 80 That was it Daan... thanks. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: protecting loader
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:56:05AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to prevent a user from bypassing loader and loading/unloading stuff at the OK prompt? (other than physical security measures) I don't know, but I don't think it will help much. It would still be possible to come up in singler-user mode, which let the user bypass anything you set up anyway. Getting access to the loader prompt gives you rather more power than just single user mode. An attacker can boot their own kernel -- either from removable media or over the net -- can load their own kernel modules into your regular kernel -- how about a module that traps all of the keystrokes on each tty/pty: passwords would be a dime a dozen -- and all sorts of other hijinks. Single user mode can be protected by setting the console status to insecure in /etc/ttys -- which will require that the root password is given for access. That protection is trivially bypassed with a fixit disk and access to the loader/boot prompt. The only other possible protection is to set a BIOS password, but that means the machine will not re-boot unattended. If you want to allow free access to a machine in a public place, then to prevent people taking it over you need to: i) Physically prevent them from using their own removable media -- floppy, CD and DVD drives either have to be removed, or secured by lock and key[1]. ii) USB and other ports must be inaccessible -- can't get round the protections by installing your own hardware. iii) Must not use the local keyboard/mouse/video card for the system console -- making the serial port carry the console is a good idea, especially if you can arrange for a secured console server. The public absolutely has to be prevented from accessing the system console. Even so, while you can redirect the system console from within FreeBSD, you can't do similarly with the BIOS setup screens. For that you need something like a RealWeasel card. Setting up an automatic login on the publically accessible terminal -- so that the attacker cannot access the Login: prompt is a good idea. Making that auto-login run a restricted software environment under a non-privileged UID -- usually some sort of menu system or web-based interface which restricts what the user may do to a small subset of commands would be a good idea. As would booting from read-only media -- not having a writable hard drive in a machine does cramp the style of most attackers. Cheers, Matthew [1] If you need access to these devices while running -- say you're setting up a kiosk system where you can record music tracks onto CD-RW -- then it should be possible to disable the devices in the BIOS, so the system will ignore them at boot time, but let the usual boot-time hardware probe find them so that they're available at run time. Of course, in this scenario, you'll have to prevent any attacker getting access to the BIOS setup, which is very difficult on a standard PC system. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
the proces that can be monitored
Hello, I am trying to get net-smnp setup on my system. I'm at the point were it asks for process to monitor but am not sure what ones I can and what they are are called. In the example says httpd for http so I know that one but not sure what it is for memory disk space etc a google search got me nothing useful (but I may not be typing it in right cuz i am not sure what I am looking for) Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: live cd login
Your post is so short, and without any description of what you were doing, or any background to set the stage. So I am taking a shot in the dark here. You just installed FBSD and on the first boot of the system you are presented with the login prompt, and you are clueless about what it means. All UNIX like systems have an master, or god like user login account which has unlimited powers on the system. This account is called root. During the install one of the questions you answered was to assign an password to the root account. After booting your system when the login prompt is displayed enter the word root and hit enter, then enter the password you assigned during the install and you are in the system as the god of the box. You really should read the online FBSD handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: live cd login did i miss something or what ? i never saw anything about a password till boot was done (well almost done ) then i'm stopped cold ' not knowing the login name or password. what gives? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the proces that can be monitored
In the last episode (Dec 05), M.D. DeWar said: Hello, I am trying to get net-smnp setup on my system. I'm at the point were it asks for process to monitor but am not sure what ones I can and what they are are called. In the example says httpd for http so I know that one but not sure what it is for memory disk space etc a google search got me nothing useful (but I may not be typing it in right cuz i am not sure what I am looking for) I think you can just skip that question, unless you want snmpd to monitor the process and send a trap if it stops. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Phoenix BIOS, hard disk data loss
First, sd wrote: Some months ago, just after buying a Tyan Tiger s2466 MPX dual processor motherboard and installing FreeBSD 5.0 on it, I experienced a lot of data loss [...] However, after a couple months I decided to change just one setting in the Phoenix BIOS: Large Disk Access Mode There are two options for Large Disk Access Mode: DOS and Other The help text for this item says: This option denotes that a hard drive with more than 1024 cylinders, more than 16 heads and or more than 64 tracks per sector is present. Choose OTHER when using OSes such as UNIX. So, at first I had chosen Other. However, after all the data loss, I felt I had nothing (more) to lose so I changed it to DOS just to see if it made a difference. Apparently it did. I have experienced no more lost data (from hard disk corruption or problems) in the six or so months since I made the change. Dan Strick replied: The large disk option sounds like it affects the translated disk geometry used by BIOS to increase the amount of disk accessible to software that uses the BIOS for disk i/o (e.g. DOS). FreeBSD uses the BIOS disk i/o facilities only to read the disk when booting. It is highly unlikely that your file system corruption problems were related to the BIOS Large Disk Access Mode option unless you were also using a non-FreeBSD OS on the same disk and it inadvertently did disk writes through the BIOS to wrong disk locations. sd adds: I don't know whether it is pertinent, but here is a quote from a (admittedly old) technical manual published by the manufacturers of the Phoenix BIOS: -- begin quote -- BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification Version 1.1 May 9, 1995 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. 4.3 Geometric Translations Some applications get device geometry information simply by reading the tables which are accessed via the Int 41h/46h pointers, they fail to call Int 13h Fn 08h. These are ill-behaved applications. Ill-behaved applications fall into two categories: some of them read the Int 41h data and then use the conventional Int 13h interface for accessing the device. These are compatible ill- behaved applications. The remaining ill-behaved applications read the Int 41h/46h data and then access the drive in a proprietary manner. These are incompatible ill-behaved applications. 4.3.1 Compatible Ill-Behaved Applications Compatible ill-behaved applications require that address 0, 2, and 14 (Cylinder, Head, and Sector) information in the FDPT be identical to the information returned in Int 13h Fn 08h. This class of application normally fails to call Int 13h Fn 08h to get device geometry, but uses Int 13h Fn 02h to read data. 4.3.2 Incompatible Ill-Behaved Applications Incompatible ill-behaved applications require that address 0, 2, and 14 information have the geometry returned by ID drive data words 1, 3, and 6, a requirement that can violate restrictions placed on Standard FDPTs. Further, these incompatible ill-behaved applications may not check for the Translated FDPT signature (A0h at byte 3). Examples of incompatible ill-behaved applications are SCO Unix and early versions of Novell Netware. 4.3.3 Resolving the Compatibility Problem The BIOS can only serve one class of these ill- behaved applications each time the system boots. This presents the BIOS and the USER with a compatibility problem. Phoenix has chosen to add a Setup field which allows the user to select which ill-behaved applications will function correctly. The menu item reads Large Disk Access Mode. This field defaults to DOS, which creates a Translated FDPT. Compatible ill-behaved applications will operate correctly when DOS is selected. The remaining selection for Large Disk Access Mode is OTHER. Incompatible ill-behaved applications will function correctly with OTHER, which creates a Standard FDPT. Because this format uses only physical geometries, OTHER creates problems for the compatible ill- behaved applications by generating an illegal Standard FDPT with more than 1024 cylinders. The conventional Int 13h interface, however, continues to use a Translated FDPT, which is maintained internally by the BIOS, and is accessable only through Int 13h Fn 08h. SETUP never changes the method of translation used by the BIOS. Well behaved DOS and Windows applications continue to function normally because they only use Int 13h Fn 08h, which returns translated geometry. --- end quote --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to uninstall a port...
Hi, I like to know how can uninstall a port that I installed with sysinstall. Thanks. Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Version...
Hi, I am wondering why there was 4.9 release if the newest one it 5.1. Whick is better I am currently on 5.1. It's a little confusing. Well there be a 4.10 and 5.2 release at the same time? Payne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Artsd process running // What is It ??
At Fri, 5 Dec 2003 it looks like Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] composed: No man pages could be found... But a quick google search for artsd gives : http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdemultimedia/artsbuilder/artsd.html I used to have to kill that process all the time just to get my mpg123 or was it mpg321 to work with a directory full of mp3's. Ended up writing a script that would kill it when I used to play mp3's with the above program. -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to uninstall a port...
pkg_delete Payne wrote: Hi, I like to know how can uninstall a port that I installed with sysinstall. Thanks. Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant Infrastructure Technology Support 1 Dundas St. West, 11th floor, Toronto, ON 416.215.3075 ~ pager 416.339.9786 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD Version...
Hi, I am wondering why there was 4.9 release if the newest one it 5.1. Whick is better I am currently on 5.1. It's a little confusing. Well there be a 4.10 and 5.2 release at the same time? A lot of people are going to give you an RTFM style response back to the install instructions on www.freebsd.org to this question but to be a little more helpful: FreeBSD is released with two trains of code. STABLE and CURRENT. CURRENT as the name suggests has cutting edge code and aspects of it will be untested in the wider user community. 5.1 is the latest release in the CURRENT train. STABLE as the name suggests is stable code that has been widely used and should be bug free (as far as this is possible with software). 4.9 is the latest release in the STABLE train. If you want cutting edge, install current and be aware of the caveats of using it. If you have a production server install stable. At some point in the future I'm assuming there will be a 5.X release as part of the STABLE train. Me personally, I've always stuck with stable and appreciate it for that. The only time I've had a stability problem with the stable code is when using the NVIDIA driver, which naturally can't be attributed to the BSD code itself. PS: Great name Ta, Phil Payne. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: damaged package database
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:37:38AM +0200, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Hi folks, This is the output of pkg_info: libmpeg2-0.3.1_1A free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams libnet-1.0.2a,1 A C library for creating IP packets libogg-1.0_1,3 Ogg bitstream library pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts libshout-1.0.7' [03:32:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/audio/libshout]$ Sounds like you're trying to use packages built for 4.9-STABLE on an old release. This isn't supported (see http://www.freebsd.org/ports), but try installing the pkg_install port. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Questions about updating...
I know this is probably a touchy subject but.. ... the ports tree isn't versioned, it's the equivalent of current Wouldnt it be logical to have current/stable versions of the ports tree ? Then when you install a base system from cd it could install a stable pkg version, then once the system is installed you could use a port-supfile for stable and update all of the pkg versions that are installed instead of cvs'ing /usr/src and recompiling the system ? Save the /usr/src for the core os, and allow things like bind, ssh, ssl to be updated with portupgrade instead of a make world or having to make the apps manually. I am sorry if I stepped on any toes .. I dont mean to stir up any trouble .. Just an outside observer trying to get started with freebsd. From: Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rotten rottie [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions about updating... Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:48:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.102]) by mc10-f7.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:52:22 -0800 Received: from mindcore.net (rdu163-100-105.nc.rr.com [24.163.100.105])by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id hB45qHCH028916;Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:52:17 -0500 (EST) X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEoDIcxE/d8MG4E7W9RQsz9 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Dec 2003 05:52:22.0405 (UTC) FILETIME=[C93BFB50:01C3BA2A] rotten rottie wrote: I am a linux user that wants to switch to freebsd... I am a bit confused about applying updates etc.. I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that another version of openssh was installed on the system. I talked with a friend and he said that it was part of usr/src and I could update it by compiling the usr.bin version.. which was fine and worked. Here are my questions: 1) if there are two trees(lack of better words) why would ssh exist in both the system tree and the ports tree ? Wouldnt it be better to have it in the ports tree ? Well, it IS in the ports tree, but bear a few things in mind: 1. Everything in /usr/src is considered part of the base system, equivalent to 'system' in GenToo (unsurprisingly, as GenToo Portage/emerge is based heavily on bsd ports...but see below) 2. The ports tree is optional, but where you can track system source updates to a given CVS label, eg STABLE (recommended for production/stability), When you build from a port, it essentially builds the package and does a pkg_add, so it's still tracked by the bsd package system. This combination allows you to keep the base system at a stable level, and then either NOT update your ports tree to get the equivalent ports from the particular label you're tracking on a given system, or to selectivly update single ports software, or all of the ports collection. 2) I have used gentoo in the past and am curious if there is something simular to emerge -up world/system -- I would like to cvs the ports/sys and then be able to see if anything need upgrading .. is this possible ? Yep, install portupgrade and cvsup. If it's on a slower system, highly recommend doing it via pkg_add -r portupgrade or pkg_add -r cvsup to avoid having to compile ruby, perl and possibly other dependencies from scratch. Once you become familiar with the way ports/portupgrade and cvsup work (Note- sections on all 3 in the handbook, should be installed under /usr/share/doc/handbook on your system), you can then if you decide to, use portupgrade and the buildworld target to effectively rebuild your entire system from source. The quickest equivalent to emerge -pUD world is using pkg_version 3) Say there was a update to openssh .. which would be the proper way to update .. sync the sys tree and then just update ssh .. or sync the tree and recompile the system ? or remove the sys version and install the port version and update the port ? Set up cvsup properly (handbook + example file in /usr/share/examples) to the label you want to track to, cron it, and have it mail you output, and subscribe to the freebsd security mailing list. Either should be enough to give you some indication by itself.. I am very happy with freebsd .. Im still in the exploring stage .. The reasons for my questions is that I am a little weary of using freebsd in production if I dont easily know when updates are avail, having to recompile the system everytime I need a patch for a service. You don't nescessarily need to recompile the entire base system, let alone the equivalent of 'world,' for an update. portupgrade and pkg_version will help out here...
Re: Gnome2 Portinstall Error
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 08:40, Barry Skidmore wrote: I am trying to do a portinstall of Gnome2 on a 5.1-RELEASE-p11 machine and receive the following error a while after the Ghostscript Driver selection screen: Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall1120200.0 make reinstall Fix the installation problem and try again. I looked in /tmp and the portinstall1120200.0 file does not seem to exist. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Not unless you provide more context. What were is the output leading up to this? Joe Thanks, Barry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: protecting loader
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:20:07PM -0500, Dru wrote: Is there a way to prevent a user from bypassing loader and loading/unloading stuff at the OK prompt? (other than physical security measures) I tried placing /boot/loader -n in /boot.config, but it didn't make a difference. Dru If I understand your question, you could put the following line in your /boot/loader.conf file: autoboot_delay=0 I think this will effectively prevent users from interrupting the loader to make changes. Just make sure that you have some other way to boot the system, such as a floppy, in case you later run into problems. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: protecting loader
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:20:07PM -0500, Dru wrote: Is there a way to prevent a user from bypassing loader and loading/unloading stuff at the OK prompt? (other than physical security measures) I tried placing /boot/loader -n in /boot.config, but it didn't make a difference. Dru If I understand your question, you could put the following line in your /boot/loader.conf file: autoboot_delay=0 I think this will effectively prevent users from interrupting the loader to make changes. Just make sure that you have some other way to boot the system, such as a floppy, in case you later run into problems. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 Actually, I discovered that password=somevalue in /boot/loader.conf filled the bill quite nicely :-) Dru ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Version...
I am wondering why there was 4.9 release if the newest one it 5.1. Whick is better I am currently on 5.1. It's a little confusing. Well there be a 4.10 and 5.2 release at the same time? 4.9 is the stable production release, while 5.1 (and in a few weeks, 5.2) is the development release that will eventually become the stable release. FreeBSD 4 will be developed (well, maintained, since few new features are added to it at this time, mostly driver updates from what I've seen) until the development team thinks FreeBSD 5 at least as fast and rock solid as FreeBSD 4. This is planned to happen when FreeBSD 5.3 released; at that point, active development for FreeBSD 4 will halt. FreeBSD 5.1 is a development release. While it runs OK for most people, some architectural things are going to change with 5.2 and 5.3, and you're advised not to rely on it with your critical stuff, but use 4.9 instead. Hope this clears things up. Greetings Benjamin pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mounting smb share
Hi Im having some trouble mounting an smb share.When i use the following command i can access the smb successfully: smbclient //server/share -U username. When i use the following command i get bad passwd: mount -t smbfs -O username=username //server/share /dir. Any idea why i would get that?Thanks. Regards ___ Look Good, Feel Good www.healthiest.co.za ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the proces that can be monitored
On Dec 5, 2003, at 7:03 AM, M.D. DeWar wrote: I'm at the point were it asks for process to monitor but am not sure what ones I can and what they are are called. In the example says httpd for http so I know that one but not sure what it is for memory disk space It might be worth running snmpwalk against the host you want to monitor and see what's available. There are a lot of variables to look at. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting smb share
Im having some trouble mounting an smb share.When i use the following command i can access the smb successfully: smbclient //server/share -U username. When i use the following command i get bad passwd: mount -t smbfs -O username=username //server/share /dir. mount_smbfs should look more like this: mount_smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share /mountpoint It will then prompt you for a password unless you've configured ~/.nsmbrc (and/or /etc/nsmb.conf). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ls and color
Hi, Is there a how to on making ls show colors or a web pages. Thanks. Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NIC boot errors
Hi everyone! I have a PCI NIC: RealTek 8029. the problem is this one: when i didnt put in my config file the line:device ed0 at isa? disable port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 i couldnt use my NIC, and my NIC is on PCI(and ed0 is for isa)...The dmesg.boot file in this case is bad.boot(atached to this e-mail).When i put that line, i can use the NIC. In both cases the config files are the same(only that line is the difference)(the config file is atached to this e-mail:k).The dmesg.boot file in the case with that line is last.boot(atached to this e-mail). The second problem is why do i get those errors(at the begining of last.boot). In the case of last.boot i get this error(after root is logged in):dhclient: send-packet: Adress family not supported by protocol family. Thank you very much for reading this e-mail. And sorry for my English. sory but i cant atach more files and i will show the the GENERIC dmesg.boot here: Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P55C (149.69-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x543 Stepping = 3 Features=0x8001bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes) avail memory = 43659264 (42636K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel.old at 0xc053f000. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: Host to PCI bridge on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 isab0: Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel PIIX3 ATA controller port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ed0: NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029) port 0x6100-0x611f irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:4f:49:03:da:db, type NE2000 (16 bit) pci0: Cirrus Logic GD5446 SVGA controller at 20.0 orm0: Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ad0: 2441MB WDC AC22500L [4960/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad2: 19881MB Maxtor 6E020L0 [40395/16/63] at ata1-master WDMA2 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ bad.boot Description: bad.boot last.boot Description: last.boot k Description: k ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls and color
Is there a how to on making ls show colors or a web pages. Thanks. Well., there's ls -G, but you could have found that in the man page, right? ls is not a web browser. Try www/lynx. if you want to grab a web page, try fetch or ftp/wget. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DLINK VIA Rhine
Hi People, i got a problem and cant define if it is a matter of On Board Ethernet Chip for Via Rhine or of the DLink Wireless Card My MB is a MSI KT4V Series ( Sound + Lan ) In any way, FreeBSD-5.1 does not find the device, even with a new GENERIC kernel. I am doing a new installation on a New HD on the same Machine, ( because of other reasons ) by setting up the Network i could not find the interface, so i am installing over the Onboard vr0 but i'd like to put in function the DLINK-DWL-G520 Any suggestion for debuggin would be appreciated, thanks a million for now :-) here my dmesg report as before the new install, i choose wlan and wi option in the kernel but as you can see:: Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Wed Oct 1 11:18:22 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DAEMON Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc070b000. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/linux.ko at 0xc070b26c. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/nvidia.ko at 0xc070b318. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc070b3c4. Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter TSC frequency 1800071225 Hz CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ (1800.07-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc040AMIE,DSP,3DNow! real memory = 536805376 (511 MB) avail memory = 513789952 (489 MB) Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: AMIINT VIA_K7 on motherboard pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 Using $PIR table, 11 entries at 0xc00f7ff0 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model. Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_cpu0: CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: VIA Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xe000-0xe7ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 nvidia0: GeForce4 MX 440 mem 0xddc8-0xddcf,0xd000-0xd7ff,0xde00-0xdeff irq 11 at device 0.0 on p ci1 uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 usb0: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ums0: vendor 0x1241 product 0x1122, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. uhci1: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xec00-0xec1f irq 5 at device 16.1 on pci0 usb1: VIA 83C572 USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 16.3 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller port 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pcm0: VIA VT8235 port 0xe400-0xe4ff irq 5 at device 17.5 on pci0 pcm0: Avance Logic ALC650 AC97 Codec vr0: VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xde00-0xdeff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:10:dc:c9:1d:63 miibus0: MII bus on vr0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0 port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 16 steps (100% to 6.2%), currently 100.0% ad0: 39205MB Maxtor 6E040L0 [79656/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a bests for the weekend, alex -- ** if
NFS/AMD problems on 5.1R - losing homedirs sporadically
Hi all, Am upgrading/cleaning up our internal mail hub, old one was 4.8-STABLE, new one is 5.1-R (i know, i know, shouldn't run 5.x as production system yet, but man - it all went so well until the end!) So i problem is with AMD. Config is exactly the same as with 4.x, as is the nfs, netgroup, etc. stuff. host is an ns client. user logs in, homedir automounts fine. User pokes around, does random usery stuff, and at some point (and sometimes at no point), their home directory will no longer be mounted. ls ~ returns a prompt. I apologize for the length. Looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 49572656200 39986812%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/amrd0s1g57961096 1978014 51346196 4%/d1 /dev/amrd0s1e 253678 438 232946 0%/tmp /dev/amrd0s1f 7931438 2881836 441508839%/usr /dev/amrd0s1d 49572628644 427424 6%/var procfs 440 100%/proc klingon:/long36859200 23600976 1325822464%/long klingon:/short 18427200 14902028 352517281%/short klingon:/d0/people/matt 87932844 37384524 5054832043% /tmp_mnt/klingon/d 0/people/matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ pwd ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2 tuning?
I have searched on google for a apache2 performance tuning document on FreeBSD but there is not much document and all of them repeat themselves. Is there any document for that. By the way is it suggest to compile and run apache2 on freebsd with ``worker MPM''. And especially is there anyone in this list that compile and run apache2 with linuxthreads? (Especially on a production server?) Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resend: NFS/AMD problems on 5.1R - losing homedirs sporadically
ok, let's try again, the single . on a line seems to have fooled my MTA :) sorry for sucking up bandwidth. Hi all, Am upgrading/cleaning up our internal mail hub, old one was 4.8-STABLE, new one is 5.1-R (i know, i know, shouldn't run 5.x as production system yet, but man - it all went so well until the end!) So the problem is with AMD. Config is exactly the same as with 4.x, as is the nfs, netgroup, etc. stuff. host is an nis client. user logs in, homedir automounts fine. User pokes around, does random usery stuff, and at some point (and sometimes at no point), their home directory will no longer be mounted. ls ~ returns a prompt. I apologize for the length. Once the problem begins it Looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 49572656200 39986812%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/amrd0s1g57961096 1978014 51346196 4%/d1 /dev/amrd0s1e 253678 438 232946 0%/tmp /dev/amrd0s1f 7931438 2881836 441508839%/usr /dev/amrd0s1d 49572628644 427424 6%/var procfs 440 100%/proc klingon:/long36859200 23600976 1325822464%/long klingon:/short 18427200 14902028 352517281%/short klingon:/d0/people/matt 87932844 37384524 5054832043% /tmp_mnt/klingon/d 0/people/matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ pwd ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome2 Portinstall Error
Joe, I found a work-around for this problem. At the Ghostscript driver screen, if I just accept the default drivers, and not add VGA drivers, that error does not occur. Gnome2 is still compiling, and hopefully will complete this time. Thanks for your reply, Barry On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:54, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Not unless you provide more context. What were is the output leading up to this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Proftpd 1.28 + FreeBSD 5.1
Hi, I have a strange problem with proftpd 1.28. When I connect to the ftp server with a client (same problem from the inside/outside the network) I got that message connected to abc.xyz.com immediately, but after that, there is a lag for about 5 seconds before login prompt comes. After that everything is working normal. All other services (mail/www) are working fine. Is this an issue with a proftpd? Thanks... /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf ServerName ProFTPD ServerType standalone DefaultServer on AuthPAM on Port21 Umask 022 MaxInstances30 Usernobody Group nogroup TimeoutStalled 300 Global AllowOverwrite On /Global Anonymous ~ftp Userftp Group ftp AnonRequirePassword on DisplayLogin.welcome.msg DisplayQuit .quit.msg AllowStoreRestart On RequireValidShell off Directory UL Limit READ STOR CWD MKD AllowAll /Limit Limit RMD DEL DenyAll /Limit /Directory Directory DL Limit WRITE DenyAll /Limit /Directory /Anonymous ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmms will only play 1 mp3 and then stop
xmms will only play one MP3 and then will not play another one. The new song will display the title but won't play. If I click the play button it just blinks the display and show 00:00. This is the case with selected mp3's from a directory or a play list. The only way to play another mp3 is to exit out of X and restart X. I believe this may be a problem with KDE but don't know what additional information one would need to start diagnosing the problem. Ray ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[no subject]
Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on my 400mhz amd with 256mb ram (this is probably useless info) I was wondering how I install packages like emacs? are they on the CD? can I choose them from the install menu? the reason I ask is because I didn't see it listed in the install options but maybe I over looked it... sorry this is like 20 questions, but also normally when I used freebsd at work I and would be typing a path and I could hit tab and it would finish the path for me or tell me what file names are close/similar but when I hit tab on my FreeBSD box it just tabs spaces... I figured maybe I was using the wrong shell... if so how do I change shells? is this the problem? the reason I figured it was the wrong type of shell... is because del/delete doesn't backspace either, it gives me weird characters like ^something the delete/del problem might just be that is a rule my admin had set or something but I don't know so I'm not really concerned with that but if it helps to understand what I might be doing wrong then shout it out right? thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give -Mark Hillis- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls and color
Mike Maltese wrote: Is there a how to on making ls show colors or a web pages. Thanks. Well., there's ls -G, but you could have found that in the man page, right? ls is not a web browser. Try www/lynx. if you want to grab a web page, try fetch or ftp/wget. I think the OP meant is there a how-to or a web page on making 'ls' show colors? ls -G is the standard option, as man page says, equivalent to setting CLICOLOR in your environment. Some terminals (under X perhaps) don't handle this environment variable without some tweaking, though, I think. ?? KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
devfs.conf silliness??
Hi all. can someone please explain this to me: /etc/devfs.conf # examples, blah # my devices/perms/etc perm mdctl 0660 own mctl user:operator [/code] I can create md* without any issues, but if I add this: [code] perm md* 0660 own md* user:operator --OR-- perm md0 0660 own md0 user:operator [/code] it defaults to root:operator when I do say mdconfig -a -t vnode -f example.iso , and I'm unable to mount it without either becoming root, or mounting it with sudo, which I thought was the point of devfs.conf in the first place (to set userland permissions on devices so that non root users could mount/dismount them if needed)? is thier some undocumented blah.conf or sysctl variable that I'm just not finding, or is devfs.conf fundamentally broken for 'dynamic' devices (ie: it can't understand wildcards, or even handle me plugging in or creating another device, i.e:USB keyfob , or mounting a ISO image, while the machine is up and running)? thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms will only play 1 mp3 and then stop
On Friday 05 December 2003 07:36 pm, Ray Seals wrote: xmms will only play one MP3 and then will not play another one. The new song will display the title but won't play. If I click the play button it just blinks the display and show 00:00. This is the case with selected mp3's from a directory or a play list. The only way to play another mp3 is to exit out of X and restart X. I encountered a similar problem. I think it has to do with the way artsd interacts with sound sockets produced by xmms. I'd pretty much fixed the problem by using the command artsdsp xmms when running xmms, and then setting the output plugin to esd. I had problems with the oss plugin, and the native artsd plugin was similarly ineffective. A number of programmers have commented on the cumbersome nature of artsd, but I haven't explored the nature of their complaints in depth. Bill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms will only play 1 mp3 and then stop
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:40, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe this may be a problem with KDE but don't know what additional information one would need to start diagnosing the problem. The obvious way to check that belief would be to try it under, say, twm(1). I get nothing from twm. It won't even play one file. Ray ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about updating...
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:52, rotten rottie wrote: I know this is probably a touchy subject but.. ... the ports tree isn't versioned, it's the equivalent of current Wouldnt it be logical to have current/stable versions of the ports tree ? Then when you install a base system from cd it could install a stable pkg version, then once the system is installed you could use a port-supfile for stable and update all of the pkg versions that are installed instead of cvs'ing /usr/src and recompiling the system ? Save the /usr/src for the core os, and allow things like bind, ssh, ssl to be updated with portupgrade instead of a make world or having to make the apps manually. I am sorry if I stepped on any toes .. I dont mean to stir up any trouble .. Just an outside observer trying to get started with freebsd. I don't know if I fully understand your question, but if I'm right, it consists of two parts, the first: Wouldnt it be logical to have current/stable versions of the ports tree ? This has been discussed before, but the ports people maintain (and I agree with them) that it wouldn't be feasible for a couple of reasons. First, ports is already huge. They only reason they stay up to date is because of a massive effort for a large number of volunteers. Creating a second ports tree would double (or more) the amount of work for the people running the ports tree itself and individual ports maintainers. I have no proof to back this up, but I would guess that there are more FreeBSD volunteers maintaining ports than any other part of the operating system. Second, ports exists primarily as an easy means to install software on FreeBSD that the FreeBSD team has neither the inclination nor time to properly maintain. Ports are by definition considered third-party software. The idea is that the developers of the individual software packages in ports are responsible for keeping their projects up-to-date and bug-free. Creating a separate branch of ports goes against that idea, to a degree. Additionally, much of the software in ports are either considered stable or development or both or can't be easily classified as one of the two. Once again, it's up to the developers of the software in ports to decide what's considered stable or in-development. The ports system currently acknowledges this situation by maintaining two different ports of the same software (when applicable), with the development port having a -devel tacked on to the end of the port name. For example, mozilla and mozilla-devel. As for the second part, I guess I don't understand completely what you're asking. :) Are you looking for a way to automatically upgrade binary packages that come with FreeBSD, but are not themselves developed or maintained by the FreeBSD team such as XFree86? The way you describe it is how I thought it was already done. For example, if you installed OpenSSH from the release CD and wanted to upgrade it, you just do a pkg_delete and then go into your (updated) ports and 'make install' a new one. (Or would just portupgrade work?) I'm still a relative newbie to FreeBSD in some respects, so anyone feel free to clarify this and educate me at the same time. Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE:
You need to check out /usr/ports...the ports tree is your friend. You should install bash2 which is in there at /usr/ports/shells. Take a look at the FreeBSD site, daemonnews.org, and freebsddiary.org and onlamp.com they all have information that you should read up on. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of -Mark Hillis- (Netway Technical Support) Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on my 400mhz amd with 256mb ram (this is probably useless info) I was wondering how I install packages like emacs? are they on the CD? can I choose them from the install menu? the reason I ask is because I didn't see it listed in the install options but maybe I over looked it... sorry this is like 20 questions, but also normally when I used freebsd at work I and would be typing a path and I could hit tab and it would finish the path for me or tell me what file names are close/similar but when I hit tab on my FreeBSD box it just tabs spaces... I figured maybe I was using the wrong shell... if so how do I change shells? is this the problem? the reason I figured it was the wrong type of shell... is because del/delete doesn't backspace either, it gives me weird characters like ^something the delete/del problem might just be that is a rule my admin had set or something but I don't know so I'm not really concerned with that but if it helps to understand what I might be doing wrong then shout it out right? thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give -Mark Hillis- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms will only play 1 mp3 and then stop
Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:40, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe this may be a problem with KDE but don't know what additional information one would need to start diagnosing the problem. The obvious way to check that belief would be to try it under, say, twm(1). I get nothing from twm. It won't even play one file. Okay, that's interesting. My first suspicion would be to see if something is grabbing the audio device (esd and artsd are common culprits here). I'd recommend checking the error logs (or possibly command line if you start from startx). - Lowell -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proftpd 1.28 + FreeBSD 5.1 - SOLVED
I have a strange problem with proftpd 1.28. When I connect to the ftp server with a client (same problem from the inside/outside the network) I got that message connected to abc.xyz.com immediately, but after that, there is a lag for about 5 seconds before login prompt comes. After that everything is working normal. All other services (mail/www) are working fine. Is this an issue with a proftpd? IdentLookups off UseReverseDNS off in proftpd.conf solved the problem. Thanks to Denis R. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms will only play 1 mp3 and then stop
At Fri, 5 Dec 2003 it looks like Ray Seals composed:
xmms will only play one MP3 and then will not play another one. The new
song will display the title but won't play. If I click the play button
it just blinks the display and show 00:00. This is the case with
selected mp3's from a directory or a play list. The only way to play
another mp3 is to exit out of X and restart X.
I believe this may be a problem with KDE but don't know what additional
information one would need to start diagnosing the problem.
I recall playing my mp3's from command line, I had a directory
full of mp3's, I took all the filenames and mput them in a
file called playlist.lst in the directory then ran the
following script I called go
--snip
#!/bin/sh
#
mpg123 -v -v -Z -@ playlist.lst
--snip
If I remember correctly I used one of the standard sound control
gui's to control the volume.
It's been a while.
I also used the curl program too, did a stupid little script
that killed artsd then went on to play the music in the current
directory.
Now, artsd was a problem for me at the time I was using this
script so it was the only thing that worked for me, YMMV. :)
--snip
#!/bin/sh
#
echo
echo Killing the damm \artsd\ program first .
echo
for i in `ps -uwax|grep artsd|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`; do kill -9 $i; done
wait
echo Well, that's done, now lets start up the music for you .
echo
/usr/local/bin/curl -s $1 | /usr/local/bin/mpg123 -
--snip
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Networking Questions
OK. The PC I am using now is the one I like to do all my work on but want to get a router. I was told to find a older PC and set it up as a router. Well, I have the extra PC now and I just need to set it up. My main PC runs apache webserver, php, squirrelmail, courier-imap, cups and a few other things. I have never done any kind of networking like this but could some people explain some things for me so I can have them cleared up so the next time I'm reading a doc I can understand what's going on? Just simple/or complex things about networking would work. Like, gatewa, router, etc. I think you get the idea. I think I know how this should be setup but please tell me if this is wrong on how to setup this other pc as a router. I have my main PC connected directly to the DSL right now. I take the other PC place it somewhere close to this machine. Put another (which would make 2 NICs in the router PC) Hook the DSL cable into one of the NICs on the router, run it to the DSL modem it's self, then connect another DSL cable into the other NIC on the router machine and plug it into my main PC. If this isn't correct please correct me. I would really appreciate it. I have everything I just need to hook it up and know where to get started on setting this machine up correctly and have my main pc still run the same way it is doing now with all the services I have running. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls and color
I think the OP meant is there a how-to or a web page on making 'ls' show colors? Perhaps you're right. However, proper grammar would have made the question a bit clearer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
overcharged
Hello, I've written several emails concerning an overcharge to my credit card. Can you please put me in touch with someone who can take care of this? Otherwise I'll have to go to the credit card company to sort it out with you. regards, Damon Brown Unix Administrator Northern Arizona University ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: overcharged
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:48:20AM -0700, Damon Brown wrote: Hello, I've written several emails concerning an overcharge to my credit card. Can you please put me in touch with someone who can take care of this? Otherwise I'll have to go to the credit card company to sort it out with you. We don't sell anything; where did you buy the product from? Ceri -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
apology
I apologize for the email concerning freeBSD screwing me out of 50 bucks at LISA/2003. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPSEC Tunnel Routing question
I think I figured out the problem but am unsure how to fix it To recap my situation is as follows Internet connection located in Building A(independent of BSD boxes) FreeBSD 5.1 machine located at Building A FreeBSD 5.1 machine located at Building B Building-To-Building wireless between building A and Building B Goal All traffic NOT destined for the local area lan at Building B should go thru a VPN tunnel over the wireless link to building A and out its internet connection. The problem Building B's BSD box does not know to encrypt traffic to the internet and send it thru the vpn. My ipsec.conf has spdadd building B/subnet building A/subnet any -P out ipsec and the reverse The traffic to the internet is not sent over the VPN so it goes nowere I have tried spdadd building a/subnet 0.0.0.0/0 any -P out ipsec and the reverse Now all traffic is encrypted EVEN traffic destined for the LAN Anyone have any suggestions Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPSEC Tunnel Routing question
Thanks for the reply! I have tried what you recommended and basically nothing can talk over the vpn tunnels unless it is addressed on Building A or Building B's network. I have a router with an internet connection sitting at Building A and I set the defaultrouter in Building B to be the router address. I can ping the router but the traffic will not even go thru the vpn and I get ping saying the network is down. I can post configs if you think it will help Thanks Tom -- Original Message -- From: Matthew Faircliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:23:33 + Hello Tom, So I assume by working you mean that the two computers can ping one another? If so, simply set the computer in Builing B to have a default route to the IP of the computer in Building A: [Building B]# route add default 10.0.0.1 Where 10.0.0.1 is the IP of the computer in Building A. Also, ensure that any firewall in A allows traffic from Building B to flow in and out router etc. HTH. Matthew Faircliff On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:50:08PM -0500, Tom Thompson wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:50:08 -0500 From: Tom Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: IMail v8.04 Subject: IPSEC Tunnel Routing question I would like to route all traffic over a gif/ipsec tunnel I have the following situation Existing internet connection in building A Building to building wireless(between building A and Building B) To secure the traffic going across the wireless I would like to run an ipsec tunnel between freebsd 5.1 based machines sitting at Building A and Building B. I have the tunnels up and running but I am experiencing a problem with routing. Building B does not have an internet connection so it needs to use the internet connection at Building A. To lay it out in more details Router at building A connections to the internet FreeBSD 5.1 machine at Building A connects to router and to wireless bridges FreeBSD 5.1 machine at Building B connects to Wireless bridges and internal network What do I need to do you get traffic to flow from Building B to Building A and out A's internet connection? I have tried setting building B defaultrouter to building A internal address(other side of GIF tunnel) Thanks Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: Re: SCSI Disk not found
Hello peoples, I am not sure which of these changes fixed the problem with FreeBSD not seeing the drive because I did them all at one time. But anyways, FreeBSD sees it and I am happy. Thanks to all who gave their input! Michael E Mercer Set all jumper setting were on the Western Digital SCSI Drive. :SCSI Termination. :Auto-Start Delay. :Disable Target Initiated Synchronous/Wide Negotiation. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apology
I apologize for the email concerning freeBSD screwing me out of 50 bucks at LISA/2003. FreeBSD itself does not sell anything. In fact, everything from FreeBSD is free - hence the name - no credit card required or accepted at all. There are some companies that sell such things as CD installation sets of FreeBSD and T-shirts and books, etc. But these are separate companies and are not part of or related to FreeBSD.org, (though some of them donate some funds to the FreeBSD project). If you bought something from one of these companies, then you will need to contact that place for any problems with billing. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
changing information in BootMgr
How do you change the labelling info in the BootMgr so that the other OS is no longer listed as ??? Thanks, --charlie _ Wonder if the latest virus has gotten to your computer? Find out. Run the FREE McAfee online computer scan! http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FAQ pointer] Re: changing information in BootMgr
charles pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you change the labelling info in the BootMgr so that the other OS is no longer listed as ??? This is a FAQ. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 13:01:15 +0300, den wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card. The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this for a while, but the it starts again. There have been reports of instabilities with the 8139. I don't know if it's really the hardware to blame or the driver, but the documentation for the hardware is apparently so terrible that it's difficult to say. I'm using an 8139 in a number of places, including (currently) my main server machine. The switch notes a large number of errors under load, and I'm thinking of changing to a different card the next time I have to reboot. I have had the problem with this card on FreeBSD 5.0. Problem was resolved by recompiling of kernel with new drivers from Realtec. It seems there is many modification of 8139 chipset that have a postfix ( D, C,...). When I choose driver that match my chipset all become ok. I don't know whether this driver was included in 5.1, so this is only assumption, and it doesn't help to you. The FreeBSD driver has not been replaced, though it's possible that some ideas from the Realtec-supplied driver have been incorporated. And yes, there are lots of those cards out there with sometimes undocumented differences. This is probably one reason why people say it works for me. Another is that you don't often see the errors. If I didn't have my switch sitting directly under my main monitor, I wouldn't see the green LED change to orange under load, and I wouldn't know either. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
root email address
where do I set the email address for all messages sent to root? I'd like to have those sent to a remote email address. Thanks -- Chip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root email address
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Re: root email address
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where do I set the email address for all messages sent to root? I'd like to have those sent to a remote email address. Hi, Edit /etc/aliases and run newaliases Rsu -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: changing information in BootMgr
On 05 Dec 2003 17:56:31 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: charles pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you change the labelling info in the BootMgr so that the other OS is no longer listed as ??? This is a FAQ. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT Free bootloaders with configurable boot menus include Grub in ports (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub), XOSL (which I haven't tried), and GAG, which was easy (automatic, actually) to set up to boot 5 OSs from a RAID0 array plus a 3rd hard drive. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
-Mark Hillis- (Netway Technical Support) wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on my 400mhz amd with 256mb ram (this is probably useless info) I was wondering how I install packages like emacs? are they on the CD? can I choose them from the install menu? the reason I ask is because I didn't see it listed in the install options but maybe I over looked it... IIRC, you'd want to do post install configure and then look for packages. But the guy who suggested the ports system really has the best idea, unless you're on a 14.4 modem or something. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports] [17:30] #whereis emacs emacs: /usr/ports/editors/emacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports] [17:30] #cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports/editors/emacs] [17:30] #make install clean If the source tarball is under /usr/ports/distfiles, compilation installation routines should start immediately; otherwise, the system will attempt to fetch the tarball from the 'Net. The version under /usr/ports/distfiles must be the same as the one that /usr/ports/editors/emacs/Makefile calls for. The ports system will take care of all dependencies; when finished, type 'rehash' at the prompt, then emacs, and you should be good to go. Installing portupgrade (also from ports) will help you stay on top of new releases of emacs (and other ports) automagically, as well. If the ports tree (skeletons, IOW) and the distfiles are all on your CD's, make 'em available by putting them under the distfiles dir, and build SW to your heart's content! sorry this is like 20 questions, but also normally when I used freebsd at work I and would be typing a path and I could hit tab and it would finish the path for me or tell me what file names are close/similar but when I hit tab on my FreeBSD box it just tabs spaces... I figured maybe I was using the wrong shell... if so how do I change shells? is this the problem? Most of the shells have shell completion. IIRC, however, /bin/sh doesn't. What's your prompt look like? (# csh or tcsh, $ sh or bash) What's #echo $SHELL say? You can enter a new shell by simply typing its name, or use chsh(1) with the -s switch to attempt to change shells. the reason I figured it was the wrong type of shell... is because del/delete doesn't backspace either, it gives me weird characters like ^something the delete/del problem might just be that is a rule my admin had set or something but I don't know so I'm not really concerned with that but if it helps to understand what I might be doing wrong then shout it out right? More likely this is a terminal issue. Termcap(5) might help a bit, as well as Chapter 3.11 in the handbook. thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give -Mark Hillis- HTH, Welcome to FBSD! Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
original oilpainting: Buddhaportrait
A unique present for your dearest ones! Germani Muni Maitreya This is the illustration of an oil painting of Tilopâ Monk. It is painted in the glaze technique of the old masters. Size: 100 x 80 cm on canvas. Nowadays this expensive technique still is only mastered by few artists. Tilopâ Monk worked on the picture approx. 3 months. Since it is a single work, it also only can be purchased by one person. Go here (or click on the jpeg) to the web page which was set up for the picture. There you can download a jpeg in a high resolution and you learn how you can become the only owner of the orginal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X /or KDE Crash
New to FreeBSD (2 weeks). Running FreeBSD 4.9, KDE 3.1.4, XFree86 4.3.0. When logged on as a normal user, X and KDE crash back to the virtual shell after KPersonalizer loads. Errors messages include a Segmentation Fault and DCOP (aborting calls from anonymous 299 (kded) and 302 (knotify). At which point KDE shuts down. However if I run up X and KDE when logged on as an SU it all works fine. In both cases X and KDE are started via startx and .xinitrc. Have done a make deinstall on KDE and reloaded and compiled but just the same. There appear to be no errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log but I have attached the log file in case I have missed something. Any help with this problem would be appreciated. TIA nigel print --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin - uninitialized value in Bayes.pm
Troy wrote: Recently I have been seeing the following in my maillog as it relates to spamassassin running. It appears the filter is running, but would like to know what these errors mean. Any ideas? The warning means exactly what it says it means - a variable is being used that has not been initialised. But the warning is just a warning - it's not stopping the code from running, and as you point out it's not stopping your filter from working. It might be normal to get this warning - I have no idea. You should ask on a spamassassin list like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope that helps. Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS - libpam.so.1 not found
I am running 5.1-RELEASE-p11 and am receiving the following error when the system boots, related to CUPS not being able to start the scheduler: Local package initilization: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object :libpam.so.1 not found cups unable to start scheduler Doing a Google search I have been unable to find how to install this missing file. Thanks, Barry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conversion from 4.x to 5.x question
Typically under 4.x I would use the following commands at boot: /sbin/sysctl -w kern.ps_showallprocs=0 /sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 /sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 5.1-RELEASE does not like these. How do I go making these changes under 5.x? Thanks. -- Jeffrey Lyon, Operations Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blccd.com Black Lotus Communications Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Controlling init on shutdown/reboot
Somewhere around the time of 12/02/2003 00:12, the world stopped and listened as Rob contributed this to humanity: I haven't used ppp(8) - I prefer pppd(8) - so I'm not familiar with ppp.linkdown.sh. If this is a shell script, there's a couple of things that I've seen cause strange script behaviour: lack of default environment and lack of TTY. This usually shows up in scripts that work fine at the command line, but fail under other circumstances (such as crontabs). Does it take more than 2 minutes at the command line? Have you tried adding set -x at the start to see where it's failing? If it's called by rc.shutdown the output should be to the console, but I'm not sure what ppp(8) does with script output. The script is called by ppp on a link down event. That is a link down for ANY reason, including a shutdown. The problem is that ppp doesn't differentiate on why the link went down, just that it went down. Now, when rc.shutdown executes, it writes a stop file to /tmp that ppp.linkdown.sh checks for. If it finds that file, then I have it do something alittle different. Does it take long to execute? Nope, it runs quite fast, which may be part of the problem. Because this is called from ppp and not rc.shutdown, init is killing it before it finishes because init thinks that it is not part of the system shutdown sequence. -- Daniel Rudy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to FreeBSD-questions. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and he will sort things out for you. Don't send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? === Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD, FreeBSD-questions and FreeBSD-hackers. In addition, the FreeBSD-newbies list caters
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
two questions,
I have two questions, the first regarding CVSup and cron jobs, the second about port upgrade. I've gotten cvsup working correctly. It is following 5_1_RELENG and . for ports. I want to do a daily check using crontabs and have created one under root. However, my daily mail says that it can't find cvsup. IS this just a simple fix by putting in the full path or am I missing something? Second, I was following the portupgrade tutorial for upgrading your installed ports at onlamp. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html I ran portupgrade -arR about 9pm on Thursday. It is now 5pm on Friday and it's STILL running. My box isn't the fastest on the block, but it is a Dual P2 300 (running SMP) with 256 megs of RAM and am running X , Apache2, and PHP aside from the standard setup/ I guess my question is more a concern in that I inadvertantly installed ALL the ports in the collection. Did I? Manning portupgrade, the -a says upgrade all INSTALLED with the r's being forward and backwards recursive, but 20 hours? __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: two questions,
Gary Lum wrote: I have two questions, the first regarding CVSup and cron jobs, the second about port upgrade. I've gotten cvsup working correctly. It is following 5_1_RELENG and . for ports. I want to do a daily check using crontabs and have created one under root. However, my daily mail says that it can't find cvsup. IS this just a simple fix by putting in the full path or am I missing something? cron jobs generally need their PATH set explicitly, as I don't believe they source even /etc/profileso it's always a good idea to use explicit pathnames... Second, I was following the portupgrade tutorial for upgrading your installed ports at onlamp. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html I ran portupgrade -arR about 9pm on Thursday. It is now 5pm on Friday and it's STILL running. My box isn't the fastest on the block, but it is a Dual P2 300 (running SMP) with 256 megs of RAM and am running X , Apache2, and PHP aside from the standard setup/ I guess my question is more a concern in that I inadvertantly installed ALL the ports in the collection. Did I? Manning portupgrade, the -a says upgrade all INSTALLED with the r's being forward and backwards recursive, but 20 hours? Highly possible if you have software like X and OpenOffice installed Scott __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re:
Thanks guys! there were a ton of emacs files to choose from but I managed to make install the right one... I even got my freeBSD online with an IP! I feel so stupid with some of these questions... I edited the rcconf to log in with tcsh which is what I normally use and everything is lookin good thanks again, -Mark Hillis- (Netway Technical Support) www.Netway.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: protecting loader
I habitually put autoboot_delay=0 in /boot/loader.conf because I'm impatient. It doesn't stop me from booting into single-user mode - you just have to hit a key while loader(8) is spinning, before it starts the kernel. As far as I can tell, the options in /boot.config apply to boot2, which has its own command prompt. I occasionally interrupt that one by mistake, and get confused because it's nothing like loader. So if you want to tie down the boot process, you will probably need to use both files. - Original Message - From: Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: protecting loader On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:20:07PM -0500, Dru wrote: Is there a way to prevent a user from bypassing loader and loading/unloading stuff at the OK prompt? (other than physical security measures) I tried placing /boot/loader -n in /boot.config, but it didn't make a difference. Dru If I understand your question, you could put the following line in your /boot/loader.conf file: autoboot_delay=0 I think this will effectively prevent users from interrupting the loader to make changes. Just make sure that you have some other way to boot the system, such as a floppy, in case you later run into problems. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 Actually, I discovered that password=somevalue in /boot/loader.conf filled the bill quite nicely :-) Dru ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Invalid Partition Error Message
Hi, I am trying to install FBSD 5.1. I have two hard-drives, both on the primary IDE controller, one as a master and one as a slave drive. Sysinstall went fine, but when I reboot, I get a Invalid Partition Table error message and I can't boot it. Here is my layout... Two 30GB drives. On drive one I have: / - 7GB swap - 1GB /home- 22GB Second drive: /PersonalFiles - 30GB What did I do wrong? As I recall Fbsd doesn't need a separate /boot partition like linux does. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
